Commissioner may give information to particular entities
63A Commissioner may give information to particular entities
The commissioner may give protected information to any of the following if satisfied on reasonable grounds that the information is relevant to preventing harm or risk of harm to a vulnerable person or class of vulnerable people:
the director-general responsible for the Education Act 2004;
the director-general responsible for the Education and Care Services National Law (ACT);
the director-general responsible for the Health Act 1993;
the director-general responsible for the Children and Young People Act 2008, other than chapter 20 of that Act;
the ombudsman;
the chief executive officer of the ACT Teacher Quality Institute;
the chief police officer or a chief police officer (however described) of another jurisdiction;
the senior practitioner;
the registrar-general;
the road transport authority;
the work health and safety commissioner;
the NDIS quality and safeguards commissioner;
an entity administering a corresponding law;
any other entity prescribed by regulation.
In this section:
NDIS quality and safeguards commissioner means the commissioner of the NDIS quality and safeguards commission established under the NDIS Act, section 181C.
protected information means information about a person that is given to, or obtained by, the commissioner or any other person who has exercised a function under this Act, because of the exercise of a function under this Act by the commissioner or other person.
Examples
1 information obtained by the commissioner in conducting a risk assessment
2 information given to the commissioner in conducting a risk assessment senior practitioner—see the Senior Practitioner Act 2018, dictionary.
This provision refers to the regulations (prescribed by regulation
). Made under this Act:
This Act’s bill:Explanatory statementSecond reading speech
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